Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EURASIAN ECONOMIES, İstanbul, Türkiye, 02 Eylül 2020, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Healthcare interventions are concern of
government policies, health service providers, civil society organizations and
public. These interventions are mainly criticized with respect to their cost
effectiveness. However, economic, social and health benefits of drug addiction
rehabilitation services are not well understood and they remain relatively
subsidized in comparison to other aspects of healthcare interventions. But,
notwithstanding this, drug addiction rehabilitation services are generally
financed with public funds in Turkey as like many other countries and this
situation become subject to questioning when fiscal policies and cost
effectiveness of these services are considered.
Based on this circumstances there is a
great need for scientifically sound and practical financial and economic
evaluation of substance abuse treatment services. In Turkey, recent legislative
developments on substance abuse treatment services provide a baseline for
structural evaluation of financial and economic feasibility of these services.
In spite of ongoing methodological and empirical developments in economic
evaluation of the primary health services, similar studies regarding addiction
treatments are very rare in the literature. Correspondingly, methodological
guidelines in this area are also very limited.
This study addresses these gaps by
presenting a financial and economic evaluation of drug addiction rehabilitation
services in Turkey considering urgent need of intervention in this area.
Evaluation of these services is based on the basic requirements of a drug
addiction rehabilitation center, which is determined by the related legislation
in Turkey, and the evaluation was conducted according to the methodological
principles presented by EMCDDA, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
Addictions.